Jim Drobnick (Updated February 2018)
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Curriculum Vitae Jim Drobnick (updated February 2018) Associate Professor Contemporary Art and Theory Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences OCAD University [email protected] EDUCATION 2006 Doctor of Philosophy. Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University, Montreal. Thesis title: Olfactory Dimensions in Modern and Contemporary Art. Nominated for the Governor General’s Gold Medal. 1986 Master of Fine Arts. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. 1981 Bachelor of Arts. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Combined Major in Art History and Studio Art. Summa cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa. POSITIONS HELD 2006-Date Associate Professor, Contemporary Art and Theory, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, OCAD University, Toronto. 2012-Date Founder and Editor (with Jennifer Fisher), Journal of Curatorial Studies, Intellect Publishers, Bristol, UK. 2006-Date Exhibition Reviews Editor, The Senses & Society, triannual, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK. 2010-Date Exhibition Reviews Editor, PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas, biannual, Toronto. 1994-Date Founder (with Jennifer Fisher), DisplayCult, curatorial collective. 2017-Date Research Associate, Scent Art Net: Olfactory Art in the New Millennium, https://scentart.net/. 2014-Date Research Associate, EDGE Lab (Experiential Design and Gaming Environments), Responsive Ecologies, Ryerson University, Toronto. 1998-Date Research Associate, CONSERT (Concordia Sensoria Research Team), Concordia University, Montreal. 1 2016-2017 Graduate Program Director, MA Program in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories, Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto. 2009-2012 Graduate Program Director, MA Program in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories, Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto. 2005-2006 Research Fellow/Visiting Scholar, Art History and Visual Studies, The School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Advisor: Amelia Jones. 1992-2005 Assistant Editor/Senior Editor, Parachute, quarterly, Montreal. 1990-2005 Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Fine Arts and the Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal. 2001-2002 Research Fellow, Post-1970 Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Topic: “The Sonic Turn in Canadian Artistic Practice: Audio Art in the National Gallery’s Archives and Collections” 1995 Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Concordia University. 1992 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Visual Art, University of Ottawa. 1986 Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. 1983-1985 Teaching Assistant, Department of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. 1980-1982 Studio Assistant, for the artists Hans Haacke, Dennis Oppenheim, and Agnes Denes, New York City. PUBLICATIONS (* = refereed) Upcoming *Reprint of amended version of “The Servant Problem” in Andrea Terry and Taryn Sirove, eds., Museopathy Revisited, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens Universities Press (co-author). *”Bottles of Art, Works of Alcohol,” Gastronomica, article in press. *”On Smell,” Performance Research, 23(4): Centenary Issue, edited by Richard Gough, et al. *”Shuffling the Collection: Card Decks as Museum Interventions,” 2 Muséologies: les cahiers d’études supérieures, special issue on La carte blanche dans les collections: une stratégie évènementielle/The Carte Blanche Approach to Collections: An Event-Driven Strategy, Geneviève Chevalier and Mélanie Boucher, eds., 9(2), article in press (co-author). Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 7.1 Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 7.2, special issue on The Curated Body. 2018 Reprint of the “The Olfactory Turn in Visual Art” in roots§routes: research on visual cultures, special issue on the theme of Sensory Hiatus, http://www.roots-routes.org/the-olfactory-turn-in-visual-art-by-jim- drobnick/. 2017 *”Inebriationism: Alcohol, Performance, Paradox,” Performance Research, 22(7): Under the Influence, 26-42. Editor, Performance Research, 22(7): Under the Influence, 102 pp. "Introduction," Performance Research, 22(7): Under the Influence, 1-2. “Afterword,” in Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges, Kate McLean, Dominic Medway and Victoria Henshaw, eds., New York and Oxford: Routledge, 270-275. *”Intoxicating Scenes: Alcohol and Art in the Museum,” in Food and Museums, Nina Levent and Irina D. Mihalache, eds., Montreal: McGill- Queens University Press, 295-313. “Nomadic Residents: Rirkrit Tiravanija, OCAD Professional Gallery, 2007,” in Mathieu Copeland, A Retrospective of Closed Exhibitions, Fribourg and London: Fri Art Kunsthalle and Koenig Books, 123-132. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 6.1, 164 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 6.2, special issue on Paradigms and Pedagogy. 2016 *”Germaine Koh: Post-Performativity and Incidental Aesthetics,” in Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, eds., Caught in the Act, Vol. 2: Performance by Canadian Women, Toronto: YYZ Books, 270-281. “Christof Migone: Sound Art With and Without Sound,” Zalucky Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, exhibition brochure, http://zaluckycontemporary.com/exhibitions/2016/christof-migone- press-play.html “Installation Art: The Predicament of the Senses,” catalogue essay for 3 Installations: À la Croisée des Chemins/Installations: At the Crossroads, curated by Bernard Lamarche, Quebec City: Musée national! des beaux-arts du Québec (English and French), 128-138, 196-205. “The Olfactory Turn in Visual Art,” catalogue essay for Elodie Pong: Paradise Paradox, Zurich: Helmhaus Zurich (English and German), 16-22. Reprint from “Curating the City: Collectionering and the Affects of Display,” Visit: Curatorial Art Magazine, #2, 21-22 (co-author). Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 5.1, special issue on Affect and Relationality, guest edited by Jennifer Fisher and Helena Reckitt, 160 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 5.2, 120 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 5.3, special issue on Curating Cultural Diplomacy, guest edited by Lynda Jessup and Sarah E.K. Smith, 156 pp. 2015 *”Smell: The Hybrid Art,” in L’Art Olfactif Contemporain, ed. Chantal Jaquet, Paris: Université Sorbonne, 173-189. “Hadley+Maxwell: Backstage in the Phantasmagoria,” in are you experienced?, Melissa Bennett, ed., Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton and London: Black Dog Publishing, 24-37 (co-author). “Editorial,” Journal of Curatorial Studies, introduction to the special issue on China: Exhibitions and Display Culture, 4(1), 3-4 (co-author). “Mike Nelson: Amnesiac Hide,” exhibition review, The Senses & Society, 10(1), (co-author), 99-106. *”Curating the City: Collectioneering and the Affects of Display,” in Celina Jeffery, ed., The Artist as Curator, Bristol: Intellect, 151-175 (co-author). Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 4.1, special issue on China: Exhibitions and Display Culture, 210 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 4.2, 148 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 4.3, special issue on Museums and Affect, guest edited by Jennifer Fisher and Helena Reckitt, 152 pp. 2014 “Editorial,” introduction to the special double issue on Latin American Curating and Exhibitions, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 3(2+3): 171-172 (co- author). 4 Reprint of “Mock Excursions and Twisted Itineraries: Tour Guide Performances,” in Chantal Pontbriand, ed., Parachute: The Anthology, Vol. II: Performance and Performativity, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 110-121. *”The Museum as Smellscape,” in The Multisensory Museum: A Cross- disciplinary Perspective on Multiple Modalities of a Museum Experience, Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 177-196. “55th Venice Biennale,” exhibition review, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 3(1): 125-132 (co-author). “The Sounds of Venice,” exhibition review, The Senses & Society, 9(2): 232- 241. “Holiday Recommendation Guest Post #9: Jim Drobnick,” Artists’ Books and Multiples, December 20, http://artistsbooksandmultiples.blogspot.ca/ 2014/12/holiday-recommendation-guest-post-9-jim.html. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 3: 2-3, special issue on Latin American Curating and Exhibitions, 264 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 3: 1, 168 pp. 2013 *”To ‘Feel Breathing’: Duchamp and the Immaterial Aesthetics of Scent,” in Sascha Bru, David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson and Anne Reverseau, eds., European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Volume 3: The Aesthetics of Matter. Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 275-289. “Oswaldo Macia: Cynical Perception,” exhibition pamphlet, New York: Henrique Faria Fine Art, 9 pp. “Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher Discuss the Changing Face of Curating,” interview with Sky Goodden, Blouin Artinfo, February 14 and 15, Part 1: http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/864605/jim-drobnick-jennifer- fisher-discuss-the-changing-face-of; Part 2: http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/ news/story/868065/jim-drobnick-jennifer-fisher-discuss-the-changing- face-of. Russian reprint of “The City, Distilled” in The Moscow Review of Books, November 2, http://morebo.ru/tema/segodnja/item/1360530048242. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2: 1, 140 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2: 2, 160 pp. Co-editor, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2: 3, 138 pp. 5 2012 “Introduction,” Journal of Curatorial Studies, 1(1): 3-5 (co-author and co- editor). *Sensory Aesthetics, special issue of Senses & Society, 7(2), co-editor, 126 pp. “Introduction: Sensory